Arkitektur: offentlige bygninger

As one of America's most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California's history since 1853. The small island known in sea charts by its Spanish name Isla de los Alcatraces or Island of Pelicans laid essentially dormant until the 1850s, when the US military converted the island into a fortress to protect the booming San Francisco region. Alcatraz served as a pivotal military position until the early 20th century and in 1934 was converted into a federal penitentiary to house some of America's most incorrigible prisoners. The penitentiary closed in 1963, and Alcatraz joined the National Park Service system in 1972. Since then, it has remained one of the Bay Area's most popular attractions as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

A unique perspective on architecture that promotes the welfare and security of those using the space. It explains from a different angle a topic that takes into consideration how to provide benefit to human beings to achieve a better quality of life within constructions. Topics include alternative materials, resilient designs.

The task of designing a large aquarium pre­­sents architects with a multiplicity of chal-lenges: the fundamental elements of interior design - light, colour, and surfaces - must be meshed with special requirements concerning building technology. This book takes a comprehensive look at the development of architecture and display methods for artificial underwater worlds. Based on analysis of more than 50 historical and contemporary buildings, the editors formulate ten parameters to serve as guidelines in the design of future buildings. The aim of this publication is to provide architects and their clients, zoologists and operators of large aquariums, with planning parameters and quality criteria to help them in designing a sustainable aquarium.

Milan-based architecture firm Onsitestudio have designed a new training campus for Italian Serie A soccer club U.S. Sassuolo Calcio. Located in the town of Sassuolo, in the Emilia-Romagna region, and inaugurated in 2019, it is a functional-modernist yet highly atmospheric structure that provides the professionals of U.S. Sassuolo Calcio with state-of-the-art training facilities and offices. As part of a pioneering social engagement of the club, its playing fields and other amenities are also available to local amateur teams and for recreational sports. This book features the Mapei Football center through newly taken color and black-and-white photographs by Stefano Graziani and Filippo Romano, as well as floorplans, sections, and construction detail drawings. Complementary essays are contributed by Onsitestudio's founding partners Giancarlo Floridi and Angelo Lunati, British historian and football expert John Foot; and Italian architect and intellectual Pier Paolo Tamburelli.

Begleiten Sie die Architekten Florian Idenburg und LeeAnn Suen auf ihrer Reise durch eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Objekten, Systemen und Gebäuden, die seit dem Aufkommen des Internets den amerikanischen Büroraum prägen. Anhand von Geschichten und Gedanken legen Idenburg und Suen die Beziehungen zwischen Raum, Arbeit und Menschen frei und erforschen die Absichten und treibenden Kräfte hinter der Entwicklung des Bürodesigns für den arbeitenden Menschen.In zwölf Essays untersucht dieses Buch die räumlichen Typologien und globalen Phänomene, die das Büro während des letzten halben Jahrhunderts geprägt haben. Sie beschäftigen sich unter anderem mit der Rückkehr der Arbeitsvereine, dem Aufstieg des Firmenfests, dem Weg des charismatischen Gurus, der Abschaffung der Stechuhr und der Gestaltung von Spielplätzen am Arbeitsplatz. Wir radeln durch Frank O. Gehrys radikale, verspielte Räume für digitale Werbeweltnomaden, taumeln unter dem Gewicht von Stapeln von Lochkarten, fühlen die Passform unserer Körper im Aeron Chair, führen Telefonate im Bett von Hugh Hefner und scrollen durch Lil Miquelas Feed. Fotografische Essays von Iwan Baan liefern visuelle Nutzungsanalysen bekannter Büroprojekte, wie Marcel Breuers IBM-Campus in Florida und den Atriumgarten der Ford Foundation in Manhattan. Dazwischen stellen Kataloge Produktreihen experimenteller Arbeitsplatzutensilien vor sowie zukunftsweisende Werbung für Bürogebäudeteile, digitales Zubehör und Renderings spekulativer Arbeitsplätze. Jeder Katalog schlägt eine Brücke zwischen der Bürorealität von heute und unseren Ideen für ihre Alternativen von morgen.Dieses Buch bietet Architekten, Geschäftsleuten und Arbeitnehmern einen theoretischen Hintergrund. Mit Neugier und Skepsis nähert es sich Räumen und Lösungen für das menschliche Arbeiten und verfolgt den Wandel von der Arbeit zum Beruf und von der Lochkarte zum "Playbor", jenem Phänomen, das Arbeit als spielerischen Prozess sublimiert und sich aus "play" (Spiel) und "labor" (Arbeit) ableitet. Es beschreibt den Weg unserer heute erlebten Erfahrungen in eine unvorhersehbare erdachte Zukunft.

Atelier Kempe Thill sind für ihre innovativen und minimalistischen Entwürfe in Architektur und Städtebau bekannt. Mit ausgefeilten Raumsystemen und einer unkonventionellen Verwendung von Materialien versuchen die Architekten, möglichst resiliente und kostengünstige Lösungen zu finden. Für diese Balance zwischen Gebäuden, die für verschiedene Nutzungen offen sind und sich zugleich durch besondere Entwürfe auszeichnen, haben sie schon in ihrem 2004 veröffentlichten Manifest den Begriff der»Spezifischen Neutralität« geprägt.Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Klima- und Wirtschaftskrise und der daraus resultierenden sich schnell verändernden Nachfrage nach Räumen und deren Nutzung ist dieser Ansatz aktueller denn je. Die beiden Architekten stellen in ihrer zweiten Monografie 23 Projekte aus den letzten 12 Jahren vor, die durch thematische Essays der Autoren und von namhaften Expert*innen aus dem Bereich der Architektur abgerundet werden.ATELIER KEMPE THILL wurde 2000 von den deutschen Architekten André Kempe (*1968) und Oliver Thill (*1971) in Rotterdam gegründet, die auch in Forschung und Lehre tätig sind und aktuell eine Professur an der Leibniz Universität Hannover innehaben. Angefangen mit kollektivem Wohnungsbau und kleinen Aufträgen für öffentliche Gebäude hat sich das Portfolio des Büros um große Renovierungs-, Infrastruktur- und Stadtplanungsprojekte erweitert. Das Büro hat heute mehr als 30 Mitarbeitende.

Rising on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a tiered bronze beacon inviting everyone to learn about the richness and diversity of the African American experience and how it helped shape this nation. Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture is the story of how this unparalleled museum found its place in the nation’s collective memory and on its public commons.   Begin with the Past presents the long history of efforts to build a permanent place to collect, study, and present African American history and culture. In 2003 the museum was officially established at long last, yet the work of the museum was only just beginning. The book traces the appointment of the director, the selection of the site, and the process of conceiving, designing, and constructing a public monument to the achievements and contributions of African Americans. The careful selection of architects, designers, and engineers culminated in a museum that embodies African American sensibilities about space, form, and material and incorporates rich cultural symbols into the design of the building and its surrounding landscape. The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a place for all Americans to understand our past and embrace our future, and this book is a testament to the inspiration and determination that went into creating this unique place.

The Woodcut of Skyscraper Poster pocket journal features a vintage illustration of a city skyline in black on red. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing project, to-do list, or any occasion where a handy notebook is needed. Found Image Press Vintage Journals feature vintage art that celebrates your favorite places, hobbies and interests. The front cover design features a classic piece of art from the Found Image Press collection of over 60,000 pictures. - 4 x 6 inches - 100 lined opaque pages - Soft matte finish

"No Trust, No City!" was the longtime credo on their website; "Some Ideas for Better Cities" was their first joint lecture series; and Acting in Public was their first book. For over twenty years, the architecture collective raumlaborberlin has been searching for new spaces of encounter and for ways of achieving cooperative urban development. Together with experts from various disciplines, they experiment with new forms of urban practice, participation, and the joint production of space. Polylemma explores the work of the collective from diverse perspectives. Its nine members visit the sites of their work, come together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on the tools and methods of their research-based practice. Examining numerous projects, they discuss strategies for learning together, experimental building, radical recycling, and cooperative urban development. The book is a call to action: space becomes an actor that fundamentally questions design itself and the role of architects. It offers an extensive collection of photos and drawings, analyses and ideas, tutorials and building instructions, that continually test and explore the parameters for action in urban space. Polylemma asks: How do we want to live together in the future? It is a request to think space openly; a plea for the city as a sphere of action.

Paper and cardboard as sustainable building materials are currently the subject of research and testing. They can be produced inexpensively, are made from renewable raw materials and are completely recyclable. The focus of their application is on temporary uses, such as for transitional schools, emergency shelters or "microhomes". Properly protected from moisture and fire, the material proves to be durable. Design and aesthetic qualities are by no means neglected, as case studies by Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban demonstrate: the Chengdu Elementary School, the Paper Concert Hall in Aquila or the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch all provided a sign of hope after devastating earthquakes. This introduction explains the technology of building with cardboard and paper and shows a wide range of examples.

Taking as a starting point a design for a mobile theater made at the Architectural Association of London between 1970 and1971 by Spanish architect Javier Navarro de Zuvillaga (born 1942), this book traces the architectural counterculture of that time and the relations with the alternative performing arts. Architect Javier Navarro de Zuvillaga (1942) graduated in 1968 at Madrid School of Architecture. During the academic year 1970-1971 he travelled from Madrid to London thanks to a grant of the British Council to complete his postgraduate training at the Architectural Association. There he designed a building called Mobile Theater. It was a theatrical device composed of several 8 x 2,5 meters trucks carefully designed, which contained all the building elements needed to shape a space for the performing arts or other collective uses. The assembly time --estimated for four workers-- was six and a half hours. This project was internationally showed and published between 1971 and 1975, but was never built. This book intends to release this project, largely ignored by canonical historiography, and to culturally place it in time and space: the agitated city of London in 1971. After the convulsions of May 1968, architectural counterculture rearmed on very different fronts, from the disciplinary rally to the guerilla positions. This architectural design accounts for these events, since it had a temporal development that goes beyond its mere conception as an artifact. The long and frustrated process for construction --1969 to 1976-- calls for a particular intra-history, which this books will tell.

The book examines the tower as the architectural expression of a long-term commitment to the city. The conclusion is that development must be driven not only by property value and architectural ingenuity but also by respect for collective memory and common humanity. The book argues that these public commitments find architectural expression in a radically different tectonic to that of contemporary patterns of development. The volume presents a series of prompts, provocations, and projects to address the challenge of designing a tower that can be understood as a monolithic whole, even if assembled from discrete parts.

The book features current sustainability and material research and design for innovative strategies centered around ecology, sustainability, and the rise of future tourism models on the resort island of Gili Meno, Indonesia. It focuses on sustainability of materials, climate issues, and development in fragile island areas where exploitation of resources are being monitored for future development. It is said that our actions impact the environment seven generations into the future. In fact the growing concern about the global impact of tourism and the associated waste produced by leisure industries is outdated. This Yale graduate advanced architecture studio analyzed the current ecological conditions, indigenous architecture styles, and resort culture of Gili Meno, a tiny remote island off the coast of Lombok, Indonesia, to generate next-generation models of tourism. "We've also seen a huge rise in awareness of sustainability in terms of holidaying patterns and resort developments. I wouldn't say that 30 years ago people were blind to these issues, but there's certainly much more education and consciousness now about global warming and other issues. So whether a developer sincerely believes it needs to incorporate sustainability or sees a commercial advantage in being sustainable, there's no discrepancy. A commercial advantage validates the need to be sustainable because there's nothing less sustainable than a failed resort." --John Spence

This book explores the public dimension of architecture. In circumstances that are often difficult, buildings add value to their locations, transforming them. This book takes a new look at the eclectic work of Dominique Coulon; his production of public buildings illustrates the complexity of his architectural approach. Dominique Coulon plays with context, light, and materiality to produce public places that are detailed and welcoming. The areas he proposes affect and accompany the body. His architecture is part of a dynamic relationship, mobilising the senses to propose a specific universe, which may be cheerful, or dramatic. These spaces serve the public dimension of his architecture. With Contributions of Luca Merlini, Claude Bonnet, Daniel Payot, Alexandra Pignol, Étienne Butzbach, Richard Scoffie

"Recognized as one of the great design and architectural thinkers of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller's name is synonymous with the geodesic dome. But throughout his long life and career, Fuller would only ever call one geodesic dome "home," and that was the house he built in 1960 on a corner lot in the small Midwestern town of Carbondale, Illinois. Erected in just one day, Carbondale's famous "Bucky Dome" was an architectural innovation that is now recognized as a local, state and national historic site. The Dome was the residence of Fuller and his wife, Anne, for over a decade and it endures until this day. This book recounts the building of the Fuller's remarkable home, the Midwestern lives of its two famous owners, and the home's history of subsequent owners and renters. And it covers the nearly twenty-year process involving architects, carpenters, preservationists and volunteers in their efforts to restore the Dome to its original individualistic and revolutionary state."--Back cover.

This book features the advanced studio at Yale School of Architecture to develop concepts for both minor and major league baseball stadiums in cities. The Diamonds of American Cities presents the work of Edward P. Bass Visiting Distinguished Architecture Fellow Janet Marie Smith, vice president of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Alan Plattus and Andrei Harwell, Yale faculty members, with students of the School of Architecture. The challenge was to analyze ballparks and their urban ramifications in a two-phased project, one each for a minor and a major league team. The students formed four groups and developed proposals for the Pawtucket Red Sox on different New England sites. Critical analysis of the development opportunities for a large-scale sports facility and the consequences on a medium-size city drove the presentations to the Pawtucket team management and informed its move to Worcester, Massachusetts. In the second half of the semester the students designed a center-field addition to Dodger Stadium, in Los Angeles. The projects encapsulated large and small scales, investigating ideas such as circulation to and from the stadium and the types of concession placed within the structure. The students considered the future of baseball viewership, testing ideas ranging from AR/VR batters' eye walls to public dugouts. The book features an interview with Smith, an essay by Plattus, and a closing discussion between Stan Kasten, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Larry Lucchino, president emeritus of the Boston Red Sox. The book is edited by Nina Rappaport and Ron Ostezan ('18) and designed by MGMT.Design.